GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Green Bay’s Police Chief says 2018 crime numbers shows hard work is paying off.
Chief Andrew Smith year after year, the numbers in Green Bay tell a positive story.
“When I moved to Green Bay, to be honest with you, looking at the crime numbers, I felt like I died and went to heaven.”
In 2018, Smith says that has not changed. Crime is down 12 percent from last year.
“We did see an uptick in a couple of different types of violent crime. One would be sexual assault and one would be aggravated assault,” Smith said.
Police responded to 18 shootings in the city so far in 2018, but Chief Smith says in most of those, the target was not a person.
“They would go to each other’s houses and shoot at the front door or shoot at the windows. They would not shoot at anyone specifically, but those are how we racked up about half of our shootings this summer.”
In 2018, Green Bay Police had just one homicide which is up from zero in 2017.
Despite many recent cases of armed robberies, Green Bay showed fewer robberies and burglaries from last year.
“We will take the Pepsi challenge as they say with other cities across the country our size, but when you get a city that is a decent size like Green Bay, I think our numbers would compare favorably with just about anyone.”
